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It's the image
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of the impotence of Europe's left.
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That impotence
indicates its decline.
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THEY CONTINUE
:41:14
We're a bit like Robinson.
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Remember EngeIs text on Robinson?
:41:20
In what?
:41:22
In Anti-Duhring.
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Guillaume, answer the phone!
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What surprises me
are your quarrels with the Party.
:41:37
After a while I discovered
:41:41
Three quarters of the ideas
and analyses
:41:45
by the Party are false
:41:47
for intellectuals.
:41:50
Too close to Moscow.
:41:52
Look. Nizan is dead,
Merleau is dead.
:41:55
Sartre's hiding in Flaubert,
Aragon in maths.
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I find them both moving now.
:42:05
Right, but it's tragic also.
:42:09
It's the Party's fault?
:42:11
Yes, exactly.
:42:13
That's why we must seek our ideal
:42:16
1 ,000km away in Peking.
:42:21
Listen:
No matter what his position,
:42:24
no Communist
should automatically treat,
:42:27
without due process,
the Chinese Cultural Revolution
:42:32
like just another fact or argument.
:42:35
The Cultural Revolution
isn't an argument.
:42:38
First it's historical fact,
:42:40
an historical fact
unlike any other.
:42:44
Then there's this.
:42:46
Exporting cultural revolt
is impossible,
:42:49
as it belongs to China.
:42:52
But the theoretical lessons
belong to all Communists.
:42:56
They must borrow the lessons
and make them their own.